King James Version
2 Samuel 14:3 in the King James Version says “And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.” — study this verse from 2 Samuel chapter 14 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.”
2 Samuel 14:3 · KJV
Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom.
And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:
And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.
And when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king. Help: Heb. Save
And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“and speak”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
“on this manner”
H1697a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
“put”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“on this manner”
H1697a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
“in her mouth”
H6310the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with prepos
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